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On Freemasonry.
knew them rather from perceiving them in others than himself . Never did any grief so affect the Hebrews as did the death of Moses : they mourned for him for thirty days as for a common father ; in him they lost a leader skilful and bold in battle , an instructor in the useful arts of life in peace , and a firm friend in the hour of adversity . "
Although the death of Moses forms no part of the typical mysteries of our Order , yet it is an important link in the vast chain of evidence in favour of its antiquity . Faber , in his Cabiric Mysteries , has endeavoured to prove , and we think successfully , that the mythologies of the ancients had their ori g in iii a purer source than the corrupt imaginations of their priests , or the poetical effusions of their bards .
With great research ancl learning , he has succeeded in tracing striking analogies between many important events recorded in Hol y Writ ancl the legends of the heathen . Thus we find that the Hindoo—the Scandinavian , whose blood-stained rites were but a perverted system of the Mosaic worship , and the milder followers of Budha have
a confused tradition of an antediluvian world and its destruction ; the Greeks had their Deucalion , and the classic and historian may recognise in the deification of Cadmus , the contemporary of Moses , and like him a distinguished architect and Freemason , an attempt on the part of the citizens of Thebes , whose city he founded , to identif y their characters and station in the Craft .
In favour of such a supposition , we have the concurrent testimony of history that a constant friendship and communication was established between the two nations , after the children of Israel had obtained possession of the promised land ; ancl when , the peculiar polity-of the Jews , both civil and reli g ious is considered , with their abhorrence of the
Gentiles , what but the universal and beneficent spirit of Freemasonry can account for such apparent friendship ? The expert Mason , who is master of the ARK MARINER ' DEGREE , will not fail to recognise in this the true key to the history of the deluge and its general tradition amongst mankind . Our wandering brethren , on their return from
the pursuit of knowledge , related in their native lands the wonders they had witnessed , the wisdom they hacl acquired , and thus , although disfigured by superstition , many truths became known , ancl the record of interesting events obscurel y preserved . It were unnecessary and foreign to our purpose to trace VOL . II . c
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On Freemasonry.
knew them rather from perceiving them in others than himself . Never did any grief so affect the Hebrews as did the death of Moses : they mourned for him for thirty days as for a common father ; in him they lost a leader skilful and bold in battle , an instructor in the useful arts of life in peace , and a firm friend in the hour of adversity . "
Although the death of Moses forms no part of the typical mysteries of our Order , yet it is an important link in the vast chain of evidence in favour of its antiquity . Faber , in his Cabiric Mysteries , has endeavoured to prove , and we think successfully , that the mythologies of the ancients had their ori g in iii a purer source than the corrupt imaginations of their priests , or the poetical effusions of their bards .
With great research ancl learning , he has succeeded in tracing striking analogies between many important events recorded in Hol y Writ ancl the legends of the heathen . Thus we find that the Hindoo—the Scandinavian , whose blood-stained rites were but a perverted system of the Mosaic worship , and the milder followers of Budha have
a confused tradition of an antediluvian world and its destruction ; the Greeks had their Deucalion , and the classic and historian may recognise in the deification of Cadmus , the contemporary of Moses , and like him a distinguished architect and Freemason , an attempt on the part of the citizens of Thebes , whose city he founded , to identif y their characters and station in the Craft .
In favour of such a supposition , we have the concurrent testimony of history that a constant friendship and communication was established between the two nations , after the children of Israel had obtained possession of the promised land ; ancl when , the peculiar polity-of the Jews , both civil and reli g ious is considered , with their abhorrence of the
Gentiles , what but the universal and beneficent spirit of Freemasonry can account for such apparent friendship ? The expert Mason , who is master of the ARK MARINER ' DEGREE , will not fail to recognise in this the true key to the history of the deluge and its general tradition amongst mankind . Our wandering brethren , on their return from
the pursuit of knowledge , related in their native lands the wonders they had witnessed , the wisdom they hacl acquired , and thus , although disfigured by superstition , many truths became known , ancl the record of interesting events obscurel y preserved . It were unnecessary and foreign to our purpose to trace VOL . II . c